Quotes by Durkheim, Emile

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world >>

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing whe >>

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain >>

Quotations about Suicide

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to ha >>

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dou >>

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the mea >>

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Durkheim, Emile